"I will never tell someone yoga will make cancer go away," says Susan Reeves, "but it will make the ride a little easier."

Susan, with her friend Pamela Ryan, started Yoga Bridge, a nonprofit dedicated to offering yoga to cancer patients for FREE. She's one of the helpful people I talked to for my story today about cancer and yoga.

As a relative newcomer to yoga but a believer in its benefits, I found the topic fascinating. I talked to Nancy Scholberg, who still feels the effects of chemotherapy years after receiving treatment after her double mastectomy. Yoga has helped with the tingling in her fingers and toes, as well as with the tightness from scar tissue in her back.

Her instructor, Jenny Parum, credits yoga with rescuing her own self from the ravages of rheumatoid arthritis, so understands its healing power. I also talked to oncologist Dr. Jaya Juturi of Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, who told me this:

"If we didn't bring up yoga in the context of emotional or physical distress, we're not doing our job. If we said, 'See a counselor and take medicine,' that might be meaningful, but we need to create an empowering long-term strategy that will bring them everlasting results."

Here's what registered nurse and yoga instructor Leslie Storms told me: "For a moment, they're focusing and thinking about something that's not the illness. It's a moment of freedom from the mind, from their 'oh-I'm-sick' story and getting to focus on their breathing and their intention. To me, that's the sweetness of someone struggling with that."

Powerful, powerful information.

Again, to read more, click here. If you'd like to see for yourself how it works, or do your part to help Yoga Bridge help others, go to Transform U Fitness in Lewisville from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday. The donations-only class, led by one of my favorite people ever - Mary Dunklin - will benefit Yoga Bridge.

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